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Article #185: Noise Pollution and Fighting it with Acoustic Foam

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Noise pollution (or environmental noise in noise as you wanted and it wasn't a
technical areas and venues) is termed as problem. Nowadays basically we have people
displeasing or annoying human or living on top of each other, underneath
mechanically caused sound that is or can each other and in fact all over the place
be described as alien to the environment. and more importantly interfacing with
I guess to most of us the major source of modern day technologies in ways that
this pollution would come from hitherto would have thought to have been
transportation systems, as anyone who has impossible. As such the use of the
tried to hire a car from the main AVIS car acoustic foam and the noise dampening
rental depot at Heathrow Airport would systems are essential.
testify to. Based on the perimeter road at If we take for example the situation in
Heathrow sometimes the noise of landing many cities nowadays when we have whole
747's can make it a little difficult plethoras of modern communication links
explaining to the attendant what problems such as underground railway systems, over
you may have had (or not) with the car you ground railway systems, modern two-way
are returning. flyovers and in fact transports
However before we all start to assume that communications and residential
noise pollution is purely something that accommodation right next to each other.
occurs in major cities let us consider the Without adequate noise reduction systems
effect of noise pollution in rural in place and incorporated within the
communities. Now noise from recreational structure of the residential and work
vehicles has become quite a major issue accommodation than pretty quickly life
with the rural communities. Quad Bikes or within these new cities would become
All Terrain Vehicles (ATV's) have become a pretty intolerable.
serious problem in the countryside. They As we have said before, enter stage left
have increased massively in popularity and acoustic foam. Without these new
are joining the more traditional two technologies providing the noise
wheeled bikes as the vehicle of choice for insulation, the quality of life in most
off road riding. built up areas would be appalling.
The bottom line is that we live in a noisy At this point it becomes pretty obvious to
world and by that I mean not just the all concerned quite what a debt we owe to
sound of cars and traffic etc but the way noise reduction systems and soundproofing
we live our lives and perhaps more in general that quite often mere words on
importantly where we are now living and no longer enough.
the density of the accommodation we Having lived in the centre of London and
provide ourselves. also spent time on the northwest coast of
In the old days when basically all you had County Donegal in Ireland, when it comes
to worry about was the old cottage in the to noise pollution I know which one I
middle of the field 6 miles away from the prefer.
nearest neighbour you could make as much






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